This unimaginable citrus rice is flooded with orange juice, flecked with celery and carrots, and boosted with a packet of French onion dip combine. It’s stunning, scrumptious, and if you happen to’re in a rice or grain rut, it is simply the factor to get you out of it. This Tremendous Orange Citrus Rice can also be the proper base for a rice bowl, and I really like utilizing leftovers the following day for a citrusy-y tackle fried rice.

I prepare dinner rice a pair occasions per week. Half the time I’ll make it straight and easy – water, rice, and a little bit of salt. The opposite occasions I like to combine it up with totally different broths, infusions, and favourite flavors, elements and textures. Lots of you know the way a lot I love a superb rice scenario – I included a complete part of concepts behind Tremendous Pure Easy. I additionally continuously revisit Bryant Terry’s Superb Inexperienced Rice, this Congee with Brown Rice and Turmeric, and this herby rice scenario. Just lately, this tremendous orange citrus rice has been in high-rotation. Listed below are the small print!

Citrus Rice Inspiration

One of many issues I really like about flea markets, property and yard gross sales is discovering and searching outdated cookbooks. I come throughout loads of group cookbooks, and at all times have my eyes peeled for books which are particular, uncommon, and/or regionally particular. As we speak’s recipe was impressed by a cookbook I picked up a couple of years in the past, revealed by Sunkist in 1968. It’s cover-to-cover recipes which are citrus impressed – be aware the sub-title: lemons, tangerines – citrus treasures of the west – oranges, grapefruits. 

A number of of the recipes caught my consideration. Specifically, there may be an orange rice recipe that requires “immediate minced onions.” I imagined that will add a pleasant seasoning ingredient to a citrus rice. I are inclined to hold French onion soup combine readily available to make the French Onion Strata in Tremendous Pure Easy, and have dehydrated onions in my pantry as properly.  As we speak’s recipe developed from there. I really like the way in which the onion helps counter the sweetness of the orange juice, protecting the entire dish squarely within the savory camp.

What Type of Rice to Use?

I’ve been utilizing brown basmati rice for this recipe. Quick grain brown rice also needs to work, you may want to regulate the cooking time a bit although. I’ve examined a mix of half brown basmati with half white basmati and it wasn’t nice. Unsurprisingly, the white grains actually blew out and over cooked whereas the brown rice grains completed cooking.

The final rule of thumb right here is sure, you may seemingly use your favourite rice, no matter it’s. It is best to merely alter the quantity of liquid and cooking time based on no matter you sometimes use for two cups of rice. So, for instance, if you happen to’re utilizing 2 cups of white rice, reduce the orange juice and water known as for within the recipe from 4 cups to three cups (or 3 1/4 cups whole liquid). Hope that is sensible. It’s a good distance of claiming you may seemingly make this with success with no matter rice you will have readily available.

Make Citrus Rice right into a Meal

You may simply add one other hearty ingredient to this rice and make a one bowl meal. You see the citrus rice pictured right here topped with a little bit of merely marinated, baked tofu. It is simply slabs of thinly sliced extra-firm tofu tossed in 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 tablespoon wasabi paste, and a couple of teaspoons soy sauce and baked till golden in a 375F oven. Wasabi paste will be tough to come back by, and once I’m out of it I’ll substitute a favourite curry paste or tobanjan paste. Throw some broccoli or cauliflower florets into the oven with the tofu for some added veg. And, you need to completely use leftovers on this Herbed Rice Salad with Peanuts!

Alternately, I prefer to make a skinny omelette with an egg or two, slice it thinly, and use that instead of the tofu. And earlier than I overlook, in case your celery is additional leafy, you’ll want to make your personal celery salt! It is actually fantastic on this rice, but additionally on all kinds of soups and salads.

Leftover Concepts

This recipe makes a superb quantity of citrus rice, and we regularly have leftovers. It’s SO good the following day, good for a fast fried rice for lunch, or simple dinner. The citrus ingredient is basically incredible and sudden if you happen to aren’t within the know. 

In the event you’re on the lookout for extra rice recipes I’ve so many concepts. Giggle/cry. Remember to do that inexperienced rice, my favourite mushroom casserole,  and this vegetarian tackle paella.  I additionally love cooking with quinoa, cooking with lentils. Get pleasure from! -h

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